Machine for attaching gut to fish-hooks.



W. BORUHARDT. MACHINE FOR ATTAGHING GUT T0 FISH HOOKS.

APPLICATION FILE! IEB.2S, 1912v Patented Aug. 6, 1912.

2 SHEETSSHEET 1.

BY 7 r M M w H V n U m m 1 TN QM A TTORNEYS.

W. BORGHARDT. MACHINE FOR ATTAGHING GUT T0 FISH HOOKS.

Patented Aug. 6, 1912 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

APPLICATION FILED PEB.23,1912.

1W7] TNESSES:

A TTORNEYS.

WILLIAM BORCHARDT, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

MACHINE FOR ATTACHIN G GUT T FISH-HOOKS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 6, 1912.

Application filed February 23, 1912. Serial No. 679,535. 1

To all whom it may concern:

'Be it known that 1, WILLIAM lBoRoHABDT, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Machine for Attaching Gut to Fish-Hooks, of which the following is a specification. My invention consists in a machine for attaching strands of gut to fish-hooks, and comprises mechanism particularly valuable in producing a union between the hook anti gut of a character especially adapted fo use in the manufacture of what are commonly termed fly hooks in which the simulation of the body and wingsrof an insect is attempted. Among others, an object of my invention is to afford mechanical means for accomplishing results heretofore only produced by hand.

A further object is the production of a machine for the purposes described which is simple and direct in operation and inexpensive in point of manufacture.

Other objects and advantages will become apparent on consideration of the following portions of this specification and the appended claims.

These desiderata I attain through the mechanism illustrated in. the accompanying drawings, in which F gure 1 is a top plan view of the complete machine; Fig. 2 a front elevation of the device of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 an end elevation; Fig. 4 a sectional view, scale, along line A'B of Fig. 1; Fig. 5 a sectional view, on enlarged scale, along line CD of Fig. 2; Fig. 6 a detail view, on enlarged scale, serving to better illustrate the construction and arrangement of certain important elements 7 a perspective illustrative of the result attained through the use of this machine.

Throughout the several views like numerals refer to like parts.

In the practiceof my invention I provide a table or late 1, to which are secured a plurality 0 standards 2 supporting bearings 3, 4, 5 and 5 In bearings 3 and 4 1s mounted a shaft 6, the same supporting a fly-Wheel 7 having a belt-groove 7 and terminating in a vise-like member 8. Member 8 comprlses two separable jaws 8 8 which are secured together through operation of a thumb-screw 9, one of said jaws beingprovided with a tubular extension 10 in which vmembers 28 which on enlargedof the invention; and F ig.

reposes a helical spring 11 serving to force t e jaws apart on slight revolution of screw arings 5, 5 support a shaft 12 carrying small sheaves 13, 13*, the latter being connected through a belt 14 with a similar sheave 15 mounted upon a shaft 16. To the opposite extremity-of shaft 16 is secured a worm 17 meshing with a worm-gear 17 and upon the face of gear 17 is secured a clover-leaf cam 18 especially contrived to impart to tant movements hereinafter described. Depending from the casing 16 of shaft 16 is a member 19 serving to support an arm 20 pivoted at 21, a spring 22 acting to retain arm-extension 20 in contact with the edge of cam 18. a

Referring to Figs! 1 and 3, it will be seen that member 19 is, preferably, made integral with casting 23 provided with a setscrew 24 which is disposed opposite an aperture 25. Through aperture 25 is projected a standard 26 and it is obvious that upon operation of screw 24'parts 15 to 20, inclusive, can. be raised or lowered and thus minutely adjusted with reference to member 8.

Secured at the rear of plate 1 is a standard 27 supporting a thread-tension device 28 and terminating in a shelf 29 having one or more rods 30 serving to retain spools of thread. Device 28 comprises two beveled are retained in juxtaposition through the agency of coil springs 30*, the operation of these several parts being regulated through movement of nut 31 revolubly mounted on a rod 32.

Disposed opposite tension device 28 is'a thread waxing apparatus embracing a weighted member 33 provided with an apertured extremity 33 and oppositely secured with a cup 34 in which is supported on rod 35 a roller 36, the cup being raised on depressing a lever 37 fulcrumed at 37 and hingedly connected with member 33 through a pivoted link 38.

he operation of the machine .isas follows. One or more spools of thread 39 having been placed on.rods 30 and a fish-hook 40 having been' secured between the jaws of vise 8, the thread is carried over guides 29, thence between tension members 28, thence through one or more of eyes 20", and finally inserted between the jaws of said vise. The free end of the thread being thus secured, a treadle or motor (not shown) is then set in other mechanism certain imporvbody of an insect.

motion to simultaneously rotate, through the agency of belt 7 shafts 6 and 12. The revolution of shaft 6 obviously serves to rotate member 8, while shaft 16 is driven through the agency of sheaves 13 15 connected by belt 14, whereby continuous revolution of worm 17 and gear 17" is effected. As gear 17 revolves arm 20 is moved reciprocally as its extension 20* follows the contour of cam 18 and the size of each of-the arms of said cam being different it follows that variations are produced, corresponding in number with the number of such arms, in the length of each forward stroke of arm 20, whereby the desired oval winding of the thread is produced, as depicted, in simulation of the This simulation is further insured through having the curved edge 20 of arm extension 20 substantially coincide in form and extent with the form and extent of what may of cam 18, whereby said extension is brought into contact with and begins the ascent of one of said cam-arms before it has completely traversed the opposite arm, and through this arrangement the commencement of the forward (2'. 6. right to left) stroke of arm 20 is effected at a speed in ex cess of that attained bysaid arm during the other stages of its movement. If desired, cup 34 may be partly filled with wax which can be deposited on the thread by raising rollers 36 through depression of lever 37, while the insertion between and release from the jaws of'member 8 of hook 40 is facilitated through the presence of spring 11 which bears against the inner surface of one of said jaws.

Though the preferred form of the device is herein described, the right is reserved,

vention, of making such means for effecting a winding of thread about the shank of a be termed pockets 18" without departing from the spirit of my inchange in the size, arrangement and construction of the various parts as may prove What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is z- 1. A hook-gutting machinecomprising a hook-holding'member, a thread-guiding de 'vice, mechanism adapted to automatically reciprocate said device, tuate said member.

2. A hook-gutting hook-holding member, a thread-guiding device, mechanism adapted to automatically reciprocate said device, and means to actuate said member, said mechanism embracing and means to ac.

hook.-

3. A hook-gutting machine comprising a hook-holding member, a thread-guiding" device, mechanism adapted to automatically reciprocate said device, means to actuate said member, and apparatus for adjusting the position of said device relative to said member.

4. A hook-gutting machine comprising a hook-holding member, a thread-guiding device, mechanism adapted to automatically reciprocate said device, means'to actuate said membergand apparatus for adjusting the position of said device relative to said member, said mechanism embracing means for efiecting a su stantially oval winding of thread about the shank of a hook.

WILLIAM BORCHARDT.

Witnesses FREDERICK Sroorrmenn, EDDIE BORCHARDT.

expedient or desirable.-

substantially oval machine comprising a 

